Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... Europeans and more importantly by European diseases , against which Indians had never developed an im- munity . Others have gradually melted into the population biologically , so that today perhaps one - fifth of the original number is ...
... European languages , especially Spanish , English , French , and Italian . And since the Portuguese were the first Europeans to have contact with many other linguistic groups , it contains many words from India and the Orient ...
... European ( mostly French ) styles contributed to a lack of precise definition in Brazilian art and architecture . Many buildings were designed by Europeans and dec- orated by Brazilians , which further blurs the definition of national ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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